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Words Made Flesh
Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828467
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Words Made Flesh is a comparative study of grammars, dictionaries, translations, and hymns produced in Indigenous languages in colonial Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. Examining keywords related to the body, the book demonstrates the significant role corporeality played in evangelization campaigns and the development of Indigenous Christianity.
Chile Under Pinochet
Recovering the Truth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827972
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.
Of Light and Struggle
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824247
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Of Light and Struggle uncovers the messy process through which human rights became a powerful discourse for social change, suggesting that discussions occurring around the globe about the small country on the Río de la Plata had international implications for the limits and possibilities of human rights well beyond Uruguay’s shores.
Human Rights in Latin America
A Politics of Transformation
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512822700
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
This second edition of Human Rights in Latin America explores the dynamics underlying a vast range of human rights initiatives. Ample supplementary resources—including discussion questions, interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, and online resources—make this an especially valuable text for use in the classroom.
Contracting Freedom
Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780812253887
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
The first relational study of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, Contracting Freedom explores how 1940s debates over labor programs elided race and empire while further legitimating and extending U.S. domination abroad in the post-World War II era.
A Feast of Flowers
Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812225129
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher Krupa focuses on Ecuador's booming cut-flower sector and shows how capitalist expansion bound the Global South to new modes of financial dependency and subjected indigenous workers to elaborate forms of racial "improvement" and uplift.

Words Made Flesh
Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828467
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Words Made Flesh is a comparative study of grammars, dictionaries, translations, and hymns produced in Indigenous languages in colonial Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. Examining keywords related to the body, the book demonstrates the significant role corporeality played in evangelization campaigns and the development of Indigenous Christianity.
Chile Under Pinochet
Recovering the Truth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827972
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.
Of Light and Struggle
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824247
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Of Light and Struggle uncovers the messy process through which human rights became a powerful discourse for social change, suggesting that discussions occurring around the globe about the small country on the Río de la Plata had international implications for the limits and possibilities of human rights well beyond Uruguay’s shores.
Human Rights in Latin America
A Politics of Transformation
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512822700
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
This second edition of Human Rights in Latin America explores the dynamics underlying a vast range of human rights initiatives. Ample supplementary resources—including discussion questions, interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, and online resources—make this an especially valuable text for use in the classroom.
Contracting Freedom
Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780812253887
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
The first relational study of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, Contracting Freedom explores how 1940s debates over labor programs elided race and empire while further legitimating and extending U.S. domination abroad in the post-World War II era.
A Feast of Flowers
Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812225129
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher Krupa focuses on Ecuador's booming cut-flower sector and shows how capitalist expansion bound the Global South to new modes of financial dependency and subjected indigenous workers to elaborate forms of racial "improvement" and uplift.